Love truth, but pardon error.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

Ask a toad what is beauty ...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.

Fear succeeds crime-it is its punishment.